My first interaction with a self-proclaimed Buddhist was in an Omegle chat where he opened with something like “the US staged 9/11”, I guess in an attempt to rage-bait
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- Technus@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One SeasonEnglish8·15 days ago
Or what about how the first fifteen minutes of each season 2 episode is just “last time on…” and viewers decide they don’t have the time for this shit
- Technus@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One SeasonEnglish47·15 days ago
Seems like a positive feedback loop:
- Netflix creates show that’s pretty good
- People watch it
- Netflix takes too long to release season 2
- People forget show exists, stop watching
- Netflix drops a season years later
- No one watches it because they forgot what happened in season 1 and Netflix shows are so serial that you have to know what happened
- Netflix cancels show due to low viewership
- Fans of the show feel jilted and slam Netflix on social media
- Rinse and repeat
- Technus@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeksEnglish1·8 months ago
That “780,000 Windows users” number is just made up for the title as clickbait.
That number is never mentioned in the original blog post.
All they said is they have a million downloads and “over 78% of these downloads came from Windows”. At no fucking point did they imply that means 780k unique users. There’s no reason to assume that everyone who downloaded the ISO actually went on to install it.
They also want $48 for their Pro version which comes with a “professional-grade creative suite” consisting of… GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, Kdenlive, and… Audacity (?), going off the screenshots they show:
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They’re shamelessly reselling free software as some sort of comprehensive package, and it’s not even their own distro. They’re just piggybacking on Ubuntu.
And their premium support only covers… installation?
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But hey, they support this edition with updates until 2029!
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Of course, pay no attention to the coincidence that the Ubuntu LTS version it’s based on also hits end-of-life around then:
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So I’m not really sure what you’re actually getting out of this purchase besides some extra themes and some really formulaic desktop wallpapers, and a couple proprietary apps. They say they “contribute to upstream Open Source projects” but offer zero evidence; their site doesn’t even have any Github/Gitlab links.
Just seems hypocritical for a self-proclaimed Buddhist to open a chat and immediately try to throw hands